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Profiles of graduate students in international political economy on the 2021 job market can be found here. You can also see check them out by tag here.
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Jessie Bullock
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Jessie Bullock is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University whose research interests include political violence, organized crime, corruption, and clientelism. Her dissertation book project, Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Organized Crime, explains why politicians and criminal organizations cooperate peacefully, drawing from a mixed-methods study of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work has been supported by the Corporación Andino de Fomiento (CAF), Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard Brazil Cities Initiative, and the Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative (FHB).
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Justin Canfil
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Justin Key Canfil is a political scientist conducting research on the political economy of technology law, particularly in the context of international security, cyber conflict, and US-China relations. He holds joint postdoctoral affiliations with the Harvard Belfer Center, the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His book project, which uses computational, experimental, and archival methods to explain why some arms control regimes are more resilient to technological breakthroughs, has been supported by the NSF, a China Fulbright Scholarship, the US Departments of State and Education, and other major sources.
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Lorenzo Crippa
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I am a PhD student from the Department of Government at the University of Essex (UK). I am interested in the construction, enforcement and effects of state-based and international institutions that regulate multinational firms. In my PhD thesis I focus on the multilateral cooperation to regulate corporate foreign bribery. I seek to explain variations in state capacity to hold corporations accountable for exporting corruption abroad. I approach my study employing quantitative methods, and bringing together insights from the literature on international institutions and on political-economic determinants of firms’ behaviors.
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Gemma Dipoppa
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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford and I received my PhD from University of Pennsylvania. I am interested in political economy, comparative politics and quantitative methods. My research examines current threats to the legitimacy of the state. In my dissertation and book project, I study how criminal organizations are expanding to the richest countries in the world and the consequences of this infiltration on politics. Strong states face important challenges in the management of migration. I ask what causes clashes between natives and migrants and how these fractures can be healed and integration policies be promoted without backlash.
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Jacque Gao
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I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Rochester. My specializations are formal political theory, comparative political economy (CPE), and international political economy (IPE). I am particularly interested in understanding how a dictator’s survival strategies interact with the changing international environment. My research has been accepted for publication in International Organization, The Review of International Organizations, and Social Choice and Welfare.
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Haosen Ge
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I specialize in international political economy, Chinese politics, and quantitative methods. My research seeks to understand how foreign firms leverage political dynamics in host countries to influence policy outcomes. My dissertation re-examines the relationship between asset mobility and government treatment. I put forward an alternative view that emphasizes how low asset mobility helps foreign firms gain government support.
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Benjamin Helms
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Benjamin Helms is a PhD candidate and Bankard Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. His research interests are in international and comparative political economy, with a focus on the political economy of globalization and international migration. His dissertation focuses on the ways in which workers strategically react to external economic shocks, and how those reactions interact with social cleavages to generate political change and reshape citizens’ political expectations. He has taught courses in both international political economy and international relations.
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Acyan Katitas
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I’m Aycan (pronounced I-John) and I’m a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance during the 2021-2022 academic year. I have received my PhD from the University of Virginia’s Department of Politics in Spring 2021. My specialty is international political economy and my research focuses on elite priming of opposition to international trade and foreign direct investment. Prior to UVA, I received my MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies from College of Europe (Poland) and my BA in Political Science and International Relations and Business Administration from Bogazici University (Turkey).
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Alexander Kirss
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Alex is a PhD Candidate in the political science department at George Washington University, where he is concentrating in international relations and research methods. His research sits at the intersection of international political economy and security studies and investigates how businesses are affected by, respond to, and shape large scale international shocks such as interstate war, geopolitical competition, and pandemics.
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Lauren Konken
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